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title: At last he slips out, pays, and goes round to the yard — just to LOO… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he slips out, pays, and goes round to the yard — just to LOOK at it, surely there's no harm in that. Who acts: Toad, harm. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» of the books course of 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 5

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At last he slips out, pays, and goes round to the yard — just to LOOK at it, surely there's no harm in that.

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**Who acts:** Toad, harm · **What happens:** slip out, pay, go, look, be · **To what, where:** that

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad, harm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:5
# text = At last he slips out, pays, and goes round to the yard — just to LOOK at it, surely there's no harm in that.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	last	last	ADV	RB	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	LOOK	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip out** | present | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **pay** | present | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | present | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at yard | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | present | no harm |  |  | that; there |  | surely *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in that=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:5`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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